可帮助您轻松将REST与JSON结合使用的PHP库/类？

Question

I would like to know what existing PHP libraries/classes have you used for your REST+JSON projects.

If I need to create a wrapper for social engines API such as Facebook and/or Twitter API, what existing PHP REST JSON architecture do you recommend?

JSON CONSUMING DEVICE (not PHP based) <--> PHP REST SERVICE <--> SOCIAL API

Answer 1

If all you need is a RESTful client, then I don't really see why you need a framework at all.

You can use eg the curl libraries to do an HTTP request (or even plain sockets), and then json_decode & json_encode for the JSON. That's it. That's your client right there. REST is not more than that.

I'm sure there are wrappers around PHP's curl library that are a little bit more intuitive for the RESTful "I just want to GET/POST/PUT/DELETE some data" approach, but then again it's at most 20 lines of code to roll a class that does that yourself.

Answer 2

Zend Framework has a REST library available, with client and server, as well as the REST route and controller . It also has context switching available, so it's easy to switch output to XML, JSON, or whatever you want if you extend it. There is also a Twitter service available, although I haven't tried it.